commenting on old posts

[Hamza2424]

Hmm, that's not a big problem, you can comment on the old posts normally ...

You can't normally comment there as there's a prompt will display that you're replying a very old post and you should create another thread if necessary, somethin like that phrase. But yes, you can still comment if you proceed.

Thanks for guiding him and others, but seems like I've already explained it in my above post even though it's in between the words my words clearly indicate that scenario. For the rest seems like OP is not facing this scenario, there are some other types of prompts that you might face let me mention the most recurrent ones here with an edit.

[Adbitco]

i have been using google search to search for questions i want to know and the results are post from years ago. i tried commenting or quoting someone and it gave me this massage "Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again." what does this message mean?

Do you by any means leave your window tab for long before replying? Usually while replying post like you need to preview after which it will disappear, I think had witnessed something like this. But must times it often show on a topic that has remained inactive for 4 months to 1 year while replying it will give you a warning messages that the said topic has been 120 days without reply.. something like this I guess so.

[Peanutswar]

Base on my experience I just recieved this kind of message when it took me for many minutes before taking the reply or creating the thread which is prompted this in the upper box of the navigation buttons, but in terms of old post you can still post it you can provide what kind of post you want to comment so people can check what are wrong with your concern. If that's an old post there's a different prompt of message right there which is the thread is like 120 days old and making you question if you would like to comment.

[Cricktor]

A new reply to an old thread/topic will (necro-)bump the old thread back to top of recent activity. This may be totally valid and intentional, but the poster should be aware of this and if the current reply is beneficial to the old thread.

Users who are about to reply sometimes aren't aware or pay attention if their answer is of any relevance to an old topic. Does it make sense to reply regarding the past timeline? Are users still active to whom you respond?

It's easy to oversee time and date and if participants of a discussion thread are still active (the BPIP browser extension helps a bit to spot inactive users where a response may not make much sense or you can't expect any more answers if you ask inactive users).

[Helena Yu]

Do you by any means leave your window tab for long before replying? Usually while replying post like you need to preview after which it will disappear, I think had witnessed something like this.

I also receive an error message too, but I forgot with the explanation.

It's really annoying when we forgot to copy the text, but we've reload the page, so we will lose all the text that have been written.

A new reply to an old thread/topic will (necro-)bump the old thread back to top of recent activity. This may be totally valid and intentional, but the poster should be aware of this and if the current reply is beneficial to the old thread.

@OP is asking about error message, not asking if it's good or not to bump an old topic, after all it's up to every user whether he want to bump old thread or create new thread. The moderator will take action if someone break the rules.

[Adbitco]

Do you by any means leave your window tab for long before replying? Usually while replying post like you need to preview after which it will disappear, I think had witnessed something like this.

I also receive an error message too, but I forgot with the explanation.

It's really annoying when we forgot to copy the text, but we've reload the page, so we will lose all the text that have been written.

You don't need to refresh page I think you just need to preview the page then everything will be off, if you refresh page you have to lose all your already written text inside the reply box. Yes is true that we can't recall to screenshot or copy out the text but I guess it's not something very bad to us while replying the post.

[PX-Z]

It's really annoying when we forgot to copy the text, but we've reload the page, so we will lose all the text that have been written.

You can recover those unposted reply/text tab using back button (for desktop) even if you refresh the page, this only works if you didn't clear cache your browser or your browser does not set to automatically clear cache after N time, and only for non-TOR browsers.

[SamReomo]

It's funny that you came here only to say that commenting on old posts give you that error, which obviously is related to browser not related to the forum but I want to know that what makes you bump old posts? And you think that bumping very old posts will make any sense?

Those who actively commented on those posts back then might not be part of the forum anymore and there's chance that your bump post will get deleted if a moderator founds it or someone reports it. So I believe you should not try to comment on old posts and if you like the forum then keep commenting on new posts.

[Odohu]

It's really annoying when we forgot to copy the text, but we've reload the page, so we will lose all the text that have been written.

You can recover those unposted reply/text tab using back button (for desktop) even if you refresh the page, this only works if you didn't clear cache your browser or your browser does not set to automatically clear cache after N time, and only for non-TOR browsers.

Thanks for this clue as it seems to solve alot of problems for me. I have to test it to see how it work but I don't known if this will work if the preview tab have not been clicked as I remember that the preview button is what will make the text automatically saved as draft.

It's funny that you came here only to say that commenting on old posts give you that error, which obviously is related to browser not related to the forum but I want to know that what makes you bump old posts? And you think that bumping very old posts will make any sense?

You should know that newbies will always do things like this because some of them are yet to fully understand how the forum works. When I joined the forum, I also faced challenges about board to post.

[PX-Z]

Thanks for this clue as it seems to solve alot of problems for me. I have to test it to see how it work but I don't known if this will work if the preview tab have not been clicked as I remember that the preview button is what will make the text automatically saved as draft.

That's good if you always hit that "Preview" button but for someone like me who keep forgetting doing it, it really can't help 😅. But yeah, hitting the back button works for me, i use a mouse like this image below with that back button.